by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 1, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Very excited to report that I will have my first New York byline shortly courtesy of Time Out New York, where my short piece about a young photographer whose photos of wooden cottages on sleds on Lake Champlain (four hours north of here) form part of a forthcoming...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 31, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Today the moving company men came to take away my books, my clothes, my bed, sofabed, desk, and the various accoutrements of my life over the past 18 months. I arrived in New York with three suitcases and two local friends. Since then my tangibles and intangibles have...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 26, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Last week I met up with an old family friend. Well, the family friendship is old, but Chris is a mere pup at 24. It was sobering to remember over our sandwich lunch that I have known him most of his life. He’s halfway through the Australian middle-class rite of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 24, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Hmm. The Jersey Shore – is that at the mouth of the River Styx? Having made it four hours south of Manhattan in a coach, having braved not only the zoo that is the Port Authority Bus Terminal but also Atlantic City, I can attest that Stone Island, whence I am...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 21, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Yesterday I had lunch with a publishing colleague who is off to Ulaanbaatar for a visit (I Googled to check its accepted spelling; this version seems consistent although I had always thought it was two words). We had been discussing a few work projects and realised we...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 15, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
After a light lunch in Central Park with old friends yesterday I tripped a few blocks south to the Frick Collection, a jaw-dropping collection of art that had hung on the walls of the home of 19th-century coal and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick at the corner of 70th...